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Saturday Night Genealogy Fun- What Genealogy Search/Research Did You Do Last Week?

 It's Saturday Night - 

time for more Genealogy Fun! 


 Your mission, should you accept it(cue the Mission Impossible music here) is to

1)  What genealogy search/research did you do last week?  Did you have a research goal or plan?  Tell us about one or more search/research session.

2)  Write your own blog post, or add your response as a comment to this blog post, in a Facebook Status post or note.


I didn't do any research last week, but the week before that, I did a little research on my 2nd great-uncle, Jesse Jay Barton. I reviewed old research to possibly explore new avenues on his experience in an orphanage with his brother, Oscar. Last year, I found a newspaper article about the arrest of my potential 2nd great-grandmother, Rosa Mott, which could play a part in why Oscar, Jesse, and Clara were placed in children's homes. I have to write an email to the Broome County Historical Society to see if there are any jail registers/ records from the early 1900s. And possibly find court records for Rosa’s two arrests, one in Broome and the other in Tioga County, New York.

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